Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them. You can export monthly reports to track new followers, profile visits, and engagement metrics such as total likes, retweets, mentions, and replies.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others. The findings mirror many of benchmarks in the Convio report. Tags: Influence Performance Measurement Tips & Trends. donating money).

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2010

So you're tracking your web analytics, and your metrics are going up in all categories. To help with this, Convio has released their Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study , which shares 2009 data from over 500 of their clients. Tags: Influence Performance Measurement Tips & Trends.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2009

We just released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study with our fantastic friends at M+R Strategic Services. Get the recording to see how Children's Defense Fund and HRC use benchmarks to increase the performance of their online campaigns. To help folks get started, we hosted a release party. What are you struggling with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "     Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). We also check for metrics for existing posts for a set length of time. (We've

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.  tags: blogging nptech ).    What a combination!

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Let's take a quick tour of the most important metrics, and take the first step to improving your email campaign performance through evaluation and optimization. You can divide the key metrics into offensive and defensive variables. Offensive Email Metrics. Defensive Email Metrics.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

The event will reveal the results of the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , which: Provides updated industry-wide metrics to analyze your online program. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Seminar Social Networking Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web Building. Starts now!

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2009

Allyson Kapin, Editor-In-Chief ‘Tis the season for benchmark studies. In that spirit, Convio released their comprehensive online marketing study today that looked at close to 600 nonprofit organizations’ online marketing results and compiled benchmarks for evaluating fundraising, email, advocacy, and marketing success online.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes, image blocking which have little to do with whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Second , use the tool correctly so you can both capture the metrics you need and use the data to make educated decisions about what to do next. Third , get into the habit of reviewing the metrics. Analyze your data to see if your emarketing efforts are inline with industry standards. Am I thinking about email and emarketing correctly?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

" In the comments of that post, Kynam Doan pointed out that I was missing one important metric: There's one more benchmark that you may be interested in - your performance in relation to others in your market space. At SXSW, KD Paine shared some insights: KD Paine was asked a question about metrics for blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What are the valued metrics? While there have been different surveys on nonprofit adoption, for example, these two recent studies I profiled last month, I wish there was a benchmarking study. Tags: Art Sector Arts & Technology. How much are nonprofit organizations spending on social media? What are the returns? What are the.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. industry benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Tags: Conferences womenwhotech. How do you put a monetary value on branding?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

Stay focused : We all create goals and benchmarks and metrics. Tags: community mission social change strategy. But when we get down in the weeds of our projects and campaigns it is easy to take our eyes off the mission and direction we are headed. I big, heartfelt thanks to @EngageJoe for sharing the video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. Tags: Information Coping Skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Establishing metrics for this campaign was difficult in that we didn’t have anything to use as a benchmark. Our digital engagement success is evolving based on our experience and it is difficult to outline what metrics of success might look like. What does success look like? Pledges to Get Affiliated/Trained: 129 (Goal 250).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2009

Who knew that using the discipline of poetic form could generate such a great discussion about measurement and metrics. Acquisition of email names - while that metric is important to "management" to justify social media effort - there is a need to track other metrics. Tags: ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2010

There was also a session at the conference called Earth to Cloud: When, Why, and How to Outsource Applications and another one entitled Online Fundraising Benchmarks and Metrics. Tags: GreenTech. There was also Are You For Real? Here are some of Anna Jaeger's observations from the Earth to Cloud session: read more.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. Tags: NPTech Fundraising blackbaud email. Get the report and read it. It points to some great momentum in online giving. Now you tell us: does this match your experience with your online donation programs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at. Make a note of ROI benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

According to the “ eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ” done by NTEN (shout out to Holly Ross ) email is still the “killer app” that reaches the most people. Total Interactions - The total interactions metric captures all of the feedback Pages receive from Facebook users. Why is this important? See a sample of what the stats look like here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0 The old Web metrics don't work well for measuring social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Tips Tools and Tactics klout mailana network theory tools twiangulate valdiskrebs. You submit the userid and then have to come back a few days later unless it is already in the database.

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Care2

MAY 9, 2009

New Benchmarks Study Coming Out May 14th Mark your calendar. M+R Strategic Services and NTEN are releasing the updated eNonprofit Benchmarks Study for 2009. Tags: Nonprofit Benchmark Studies Nonprofit Events. Sign up here to participate in a webcast of the release. NOI is also offering some scholarships.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2017

Your volunteers will often bring new ideas and energy to the table, and that’s something you cannot put a price tag on. Taking this idea one step further using the metrics available in the P2P Fundraising Benchmark report , I can extrapolate that the average funds raised per participant at $31 will ultimately result in ~$400K.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The session turned into a brainstorm of useful metrics, and the group together came up with some pretty good benchmarks that could be refined and turned into a reasonable way to assess design. Have any other metrics to add to this list? Tags: Influence Audience Research Events Tips & Trends. Tell us in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Use of metrics to measure your results. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

One of the metrics that bloggers track is "Authority" or the number of blogs linking to a blog within the last six months. Most bloggers use the Technorati index to benchmark authority ranking. Tags: socialmediametrics. The higher the number, the greater the level of Authority a blog earns.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud analyzed the Giving USA data, along with other important metrics, and estimates that more than $15.42 Target Analytics noted in the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Analysis study that as much as 16% of new donors and 27% of new revenue came from online sources in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Networks Strategy Tools and Tactics. You submit the userid and then have to come back a few days later unless it is already in the database. Run the impact report to help you identify influencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. E-Metrics Panel Presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. I will look at benchmarking processes and analyzing benefits and values. It's based on a blogging benchmarking process that I've been using for several years. score out of 5.0).

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Once you understand what actions you want to drive on the day, set milestones and benchmarks for success. Determine what success looks like across every channel—clicks, impressions, engagement, donations, shares—and ensure that all team members understand which metric they’re responsible for. Will there be matching gifts?

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